{"title":"Andrea Pazienza","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eAndrea Pazienza\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan\u003e(1956–1988) was an Italian comics artist. His first comic appeared in the magazine \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eAlteralter\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e in 1977, and in the next decade he went on to publish hundreds more, many of them centered around his most well-known character, the mean-spirited Massimo Zanardi. Pazienza died of a heroin overdose at age 32.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[],"url":"https:\/\/www.nyrb.com\/collections\/andrea-pazienza.oembed","provider":"New York Review Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}